The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-11

| school VIII be opened as soon as practicable.
II is thought by Jan /, 1888, the school will
begin.
Marshall McGehee rrolored.) died ut his
home in Hawkinsvile day or two ago, at
an advanced age OF g.. lie was a brother
Of A. B. McGehee, It successful merchant,
and was by trade a contractor and carpen-
ter, and had the reputation of being one Of
! the most reliable of his trade in town.
| The deceased was Il worthy and respected
citizen, and had the confidence of tho bust
( ness community. While he never held him
self above his race, yet he had not that in
! tercourse with them common to negroes Of
his standing. and for that reason be never
married He and his brother together are
variousy estimated as being worth between
$4,000 and $4,000. They held all things
in common between them, their wealth con
sisting of brick store, dwelling, planta-
ton, railroad stock, bonds, cash, etc. He
was a lifetime Democrat, and great adj
mirer of President Cleveland's administra-
ton.
There was family row in Ben Smiths,
district of Gwinnett county, last week,
which resulted in criminal trial last Fri
day T. A. billiard and his wife, who have
been married for many years, and il is
stated have had eleven children, do not get
along as smoothly at times as they ought to.
billiard claims that there is an undue init
named West He claimed that he was out
cunning for West and found his
wife in the woods, and struck
her with a gun across the head, n1ictng
serious wounds. She took ont a warrant
tor her husband for assault and battery. and
he sued out warrants for her and West for
adultery. Friends of the parties tried to
get the matter settled amicably before the
trial began, but all efforts proved unavail-
ing. The court, after hearing the evidence,
required West to give bond for his appear
ance at court to answer the charge The
other cases We're continued.
A novel case was brought to the attention
of the Governor Wednesday by an old negro
from Clayton county. He represented that
his son. BIN Hutchinson was convicted in
the Clayton Superior Court of misde
meanor, and sentenced by Judge Richard
II. Clarke to pay fine OF $50 and costs
or in default thereof to serve a term of six
months upon the public works, or such other
place as the Ordinary of the county might
direct. William defaulted and went to
jail. His father states that a short
time afterward two men came TO the
jail, took William out and sold him
to Capt. Jim English, who has I'M
til recently had him at work on the Atlanta
and Hawkinsville railroad, but proposes
now TO shift him with others TO Sand Noun
tain, Alabama. The old man sought the
Governor to find out whether it was lawful
TO sell his son Bill, and whether Capt Eng
fish now has any right to carry him to
Alabama 1t seems that the Ordinary of
Clayton hired Bill to Capt English for the
six months. The squad with which he has
been working wiz probably he moved to
the Rome and CarroltOn railroad, instead
of to Alabama. The Governor was not able
to give the old man much satisfaction or re-
lief.
Joe Rease, a negro who works with w B.
Regain, a prominent farmer living seven
miles from Cedar Springs, on last Thurs
day, while all the rest of the family were
absent, attempted to Rape Mrs Regain. He
called her to the field a short distance to see
horse, which he claimed was sick and
caught her and threw her down. She drew
a knife and cut at him twice, scream
ing all the while. He turned her loose,
appeared as seeing some one, and
ran off. The community is aroused,
and several parties are in pursuit The
scoundrel will be lynched if caught He
was tracked to Fairchild's landing, on the
Chattahoochee river. 1t is supposed he is
making his way TO Barber county. Alabama
where he claims he was reared by Mrs.
White. Seventy-ive dollars reward is of
fered for his capture. He is black, low,
heavy-set negro, weighs about $50 pounds
has a scar on the left side of his mouth, run
ming in a circle to the middle of his chin,
has little long mole in front of the righ'
ear below the temple, and shutters little in
talking when excited.
Milledgevile Union oad Recorder: We
have lived a long time aud seen many
strange things, but we waited till last
Wednesday to see an auction of second
hand collins. We do not meanto say that
the collins had ever been used by the de
parted body of some one once flesh as we
are, but that the departed owner had left
his collins in the hands of the constable TO
be sold under q distress warrant for rent.
We are not going to make light of so grave
"a subject as box made to bury people in,
but the man who could look at that collec-
ton of collins SO unshapen and out of style,
and watched the cOuntenances of
the crowd as the bidding went on,
and kept his own severely sober, he was not
built our way, that's all. There was no one
in the crowd willing to try one on. and if
there had been here was nobody just Of the
size they would have fitted. A few specu-
lators in futures ran the bids up in a spirited
manner until a $40 bill covered the pile
The sale attracted quite a crowd of sober
old citizens who no doubt wished to find out
what the difference would be in the price of
collins when they didn't want one and what
would it be if they did. The man who
bought the lot seemed to be in dead earnest.
FLORIDA
Orlando's new gas works viii be in opera
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